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While the ruling may be sound on legal grounds, in practical and moral terms it is an utter disaster. Medicaid funds have paid for about 300,000 abortions since the 1973 ruling; without those operations, there would now be 300,000 unwanted chldren growing up in poor families that would be hard-pressed to provide adequate care for their children...
...second-rate segregated schools. And opposition remains strong against increasing [federal] benefits for impoverished mothers and children to grow up in a decent environment. I am appalled at the ethical bankruptcy of those who preach a "right to life" that means, under present social policies, a bare existence in utter misery for so many poor women and their children...
...with great dismay and utter disbelief that I learned about the report on human sexuality [June 13]. I find it incredible that some Catholic theologians are giving their approval to extramarital sex and teaching that such relationships can be "creative and integrative for all involved." Who repealed God's commandment: Thou shall not commit adultery...
...poverty will continue to grow." Justice Thurgood Marshall charged that the court's decision would "brutally coerce poor women to bear children," and said that he was "appalled at the ethical bankruptcy of those who preach a 'right to life' that means a bare existence in utter misery for so many." Justice William Brennan claimed the decision "seriously erodes" the principle, set forth by the court in its historic 1973 ruling, that it is unconstitutional for Government to interfere with a woman's choice whether or not to have an abortion...
...production continues at Brandeis University's Spingold Theatre in Waltham through July 17, to be followed by Shaw's "Too True to Be Good." July 19 to August 14; Vincent Youman's "Hit the Deck," August 16 to 21; and a new musical by Clark Gesner, "The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall," August 23 through September...